- Woke Up This Morning
Infobox Single
Name = Woke Up This Morning
Artist =Alabama 3
from Album =Exile on Coldharbour Lane
Released =1997
Format =CD single
Recorded =1997
Genre =Blues
Length = 4:14
4:05 (Chosen One Mix)
Label = One Little Indian
Writer = Jake Black (aka The Very Reverend Dr. D. Wayne Love)
Rob Spragg (aka Larry Love)
Producer =Alabama 3
Chart position = * #80 (UK)
Last single = "Ain't Going to Goa"
(1996)
This single = "Woke Up This Morning"
(1997)
Next single = "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness"
(1997)|"Woke Up This Morning" is a
song byAlabama 3 (known as "A3" in the USA) from their 1997 album "Exile on Coldharbour Lane ." The song is best known as the opening theme music for theHBO drama series "The Sopranos " (which used the "Chosen One Mix").A3 frontman Rob Spragg (aka Larry Love) wrote the song after hearing about a case where a fed-up woman shot her husband after 20 years of abuse, mistreatment and neglect. The song is co-written with Jake Black (aka The Very Reverend Dr. D. Wayne Love).
The song was first produced in 1995.
Cultural impact and references
* American rapper
Nas used the "got yourself a gun" refrain for his 2001 single "Got Ur Self A... ."
* The song was used in "Papa's Got a Brand New Badge ", the Season 13 finale of animated television series "The Simpsons ". The music is used when theSpringfield Mafia drive through the town in search for Homer who has become a security official.
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